090) to terms with Francis.

Before winter had ended the plans for invasion were settled.

Maximilian came down with the snows from the mountains in March; on the 23rd he crossed the Adda;[214] on the 25th he was within nine miles of Milan, and almost in sight of the army of France.
On the 26th he turned and fled without striking a blow.

Back he went over the Adda, over the Oglio, up into Tyrol, leaving the French and Venetians in secure possession of Northern Italy.

A year later they had recovered for Venice the last of the places of which it had been robbed by the League of Cambrai.
[Footnote 214: _L.